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That this House notes with concern that around 30 people a year still die as a result
of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning and many more may unknowingly be poisoned; further
notes that there has never been a fatality related to CO poisoning where an audible
CO alarm, tested to the standard BS EN 50291, was present; acknowledges that the cost
of these devices has significantly decreased since the introduction of the Building
Regulations in 2010; highlights the recent research undertaken at Liverpool John Moores
University which indicates it is low-income households who are most at risk of CO
poisoning; notes the Government's stated intention in its White Paper, Fixing our
broken housing market, to improve safeguards in the private rented sector; and calls
on the Government, the Welsh Executive and the Northern Ireland Executive to implement
similar regulations to those now in operation in Scotland and to require all landlords
to install CO detectors in all rented properties, as part of a package of measures
to achieve its aim of improved safeguards for people living in rented homes.
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